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One time I came around a corner in the road at the upper end of Cougar Reservoir in Oregon on my way to meet my parents on a weekend camping trip. There were about 40 hippies on the bridge. One of them had a German Sheppard on a leash and he stopped me on a bridge, got right up at my window and started yelling at me. I set the handgun on the dash and just crept through the middle of them. I could see there were a bunch of them camped all around the creek at the upper end of the reservoir.

About a mile up the road I came to some road construction. I got out to stretch my legs and mentioned the mess downstream by the bridge to the flagger. She said they were coming up and pouring sand in the fuel tanks of their paving equipment and dump trucks. WTH would anybody do that? All they're doing is paving the road for crying out loud. The same crowd was stopping old people on the bridge and demanding a toll to get across. Generally terrorizing people.

Anyhow, I spent the weekend around the campfire carving a bat out of maple to carry in the truck. Was kinda hoping I'd have a chance to use it on the way home. I carved the name "Timbertown Tenderizer" into it. Met the same construction crew on the way out and they told me the feds came in and arrested 300 dirtbags over the weekend and cleaned the camp out. Sure enough, they were gone when I went thru.

They don't walk there, my friend.

Someone out to do that type of scumbag trickery would probably come in from a direction that's inconspicuous.

Maybe not though. Some aren't rocket surgeons.

What's wrong with catchin' boobies in a corn field?

I'm enjoying your idea that you could trail cam an area the size of farm country in America. My guess is that you own a trail cam manufacturer.

My son-in-law's father has about 100 acres that adjoins a wildlife management area. He has it very well posted. He takes the opposite approach. He goes utterly apeschit on them. He has yet to suffer retaliation. I reckon one day he just isn't going to come home.

Seldom have trees along the road here. You might have an old tree claim a half mile away. Litchfield area has more trees but still not so many you could cover a 200 acre field easily. Besides, everyone there knows what's going on. Last time a guy got out of hand that I'm aware of his neighbors had a meeting with him outside the bar, all words, but problem solved.

I do hope someone catches them and gives them a permanent warning. That's the worst crap I can think of. That machinery costs a fortune to buy and maintain.

You can bet there's farmers out at night in vantage points overlooking their crops now.

Seems to be about the best way to catch them in the act.

Schit, a lot of them places ain't got trees.

Need the cameras with wifi that send an image to your cell. It sores it and gives you real time pictures. Even if the detroy it you have the last pictures sent to you.

The guy has 2000 acres of corn and beans. The only fuggin trees are around are power line poles. It's called the prairie.
How many fuggin trail cameras would you need to cover 2k acres and how long would they last strapped to a pole next to the road?
JFC SMFH

There is no way to camera that much ground. It will take pure luck to catch someone.

Creativity is the key that opens the door to productivity.

Could be a little payback to the farmer screwing another farmers ol lady. Farmers are well known to being promiscuous. Another farmer would know how to screw the screwer.

There aren't any trees. It's gravel, grass to the bottom of the ditch, and the farmers swing their equipment out around the power-poles and farm to the bottom of the ditch. There's a few trees around farm yards, but that's really it. You could put your trail cams on the power poles, and have the power company remove them. You could put T-posts into the ditch, hang your cams on them and run the risk of someone running into your T-post thats on the public right-of-way.

160ac squares as far as the eye can see.

Following your logic, game cameras in the ocean will help stop illegal Cubans and drugs from entering.

WTF are you talking about, Local Dirt knows everything, just ask him. Amazing how provincial some people are, which is ok, but Local Dirt considers it a badge of honor. In Minnesota we call that STUPID.

There must be places where they are arriving to do the deed.

Just need to find out how far into the field they are placing the traps then place as best as one can 2 or cameras.

Even if they see one and take it odds are their picture would be on one of the others.

We placed a few on my place just for pictures of mule deer,just to see when and where if/maybe they were coming on the place.

In one camera we had pictures of 2 worthless guys that broke into the mother in laws trailer.

The SO got their pictures off the sd card and they were no longer a problem,they were from a house about 3/4 mile from here.

Even had a close up of the older of the 2.

A friend in the country had a neighbor with an adult son who should have been a squirt down his Mama's leg. He took his jacked up 4X4 and backed up into my buddie's garden and proceeded to bury it. Got it out before John got home, but with muddy tracks to the neighbor's house across the road a ways. Next fall as the neighbor tried to combine his beans some old used fence came up out of the ground tangled up in the bean head. John just smiled. The 4X4 doesn't leave the road any more. I think they may have sold it to make repairs on the combine. Sometimes things happen for a reason, like a farmer visits the neighbor when only the wife is home. Next fall things come up in the corn head and cost big bucks. Or the new son looks a lot like his neighbor. Be Well, Rustyzipper.